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What is Progress Kendo UI?
Kendo UI is a JavaScript UI toolkit that allows users to build responsive web-based apps integrated into their framework of choice (jQuery, Angular, React, or Vue). The vendor’s value proposition is that Kendo UI offers a large library of popular and configurable components ranging from sophisticated grids and charts to basic buttons, so users don’t have to waste development time building their UI. The vendor also says the large library of customizable themes means users can easily deploy a consistent look and feel across the entire user experience.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, All |
| Mobile Application | Kendo UI is a UI development framework for building mobile and web applications. Can be used on any operating system. |
| Supported Countries | Worldwide |
| Supported Languages | All Languages |
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Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Progress Kendo UI are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Progress Kendo UI has proven to be a valuable tool for organizations across various industries. Users have relied on Kendo UI to fill gaps in their web applications, providing functional implementations for a variety of user interfaces. It has been used to integrate with CMS platforms like DotNetNuke, creating smooth and efficient data displays and entry portals. Kendo UI's powerful Scheduler control has been a preferred choice of developers, especially when working with frameworks like Aurelia. Additionally, it has been utilized in the development of online facility management systems, ASP MVC applications for generating business reports, and software for data insights companies to easily view and analyze data in various forms. The wide range of components offered by Kendo UI, including grids, masked text boxes, and cascaded drop-downs, has significantly reduced development time and allowed for easy integration of different products. Users have praised the simplicity and well-documented interface of Kendo UI, making it a reliable choice for organizations seeking to improve their user experience without extensive custom control development. With its pre-built widgets and APIs, Kendo UI has enabled faster development and multiple integrations for users. Whether it's developing customer-facing applications, managing internal business processes, or enhancing existing web applications, Kendo UI offers a modern user experience while meeting specific requirements. The flexibility of Progress Kendo UI empowers developers to create highly customizable applications that align with user preferences and requirements while significantly reducing development time.
Users of Kendo UI frequently recommend the following:
- Utilize the trial software to evaluate Kendo UI.
- Explore product demos and code samples to see the main functionality.
- Research the controls you are most interested in first before using Kendo UI.
Overall, users find Kendo UI to be a valuable tool for web development, particularly for projects requiring numerous form elements. It is also seen as an effective way to save development time. Users who are already familiar with JQuery and Angular find Kendo UI especially beneficial. Additionally, the self-hosted version of Kendo UI is generally preferred over the cloud version. The framework is praised for its customization options and supportive team.
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September 15, 2021
Progress Kendo UI is best for all UI developments
We are using Progress Kendo UI for web applications. It has helped us to speed up the development cycle and easily adapt to the changing requirements from the client's end. We have extensively used the pre-built widgets and APIs for faster development and multiple integrations.
- Multi Platform Support
- Detailed usage guide for all the feature
- Grid control provides flexibility to create robust design
- Fast troubleshooting support from the Progress Kendo UI Team
- Standardized UI
- Easy to apply customizations
- Upgrade process is very complex and has led to breaks in the UI design. More stable approach needs to be designed for the same
- Initial learning curve is required while implementing by the developers
We use Kendo UI in our customer-facing applications, which serve about 400 users. We have yet to implement Kendo UI in any of our internal applications, we currently use data tables, but moving forward, we intend to use Kendo UI for most GUI-related requirements that we may run into.
- Showing data in a table/grid.
- Drag and drop functionality.
- Accessing remote data to widgets.
- Better error handling messages.
- Examples for edge cases.
April 26, 2021
Create Professional Web Sites Easily
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Progress Kendo UI is currently being used in my department only at this time. It has been used to redesign a chemistry application and an inspection question and answer site.
- It does well with complex grid requirements.
- Will make your site look highly professional with its editor controls.
- It's easy to implement the Kendo UI on a web project.
- There is a little learning curve on using some of the controls.
March 26, 2021
Great UI toolkit
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Kendo UI as a critical component of our flagship product's web application UI. Multiple teams within Engineering leverage Kendo as a UI tool.
- It is very simple to set up.
- Its API is extensive, incredibly well-documented, and grows regularly.
- It supports integration within multiple popular frameworks and libraries.
- Demos are extensive and easy to use.
- Custom functionality can be difficult and extensive to implement.
- Theme customization is limited to two choices: Overly complex LESS source, or very limited SCSS.
- With a direct license to the source, upgrading can be time-consuming and require a lot of retesting.
October 23, 2020
Best cost/benefit balance
We have been using Kendo UI in order to improve our user experience and our development effort. Kendo UI is one of our tools that makes a great improvement in our processes.
Kendo UI is a powerful component library that allow us to focus on business logic instead of UI programming.
Kendo UI is a powerful component library that allow us to focus on business logic instead of UI programming.
- Performance is great and the components are lightweight.
- The design is customizable with CSS is as easy as applying templates.
- Price is so good.
- Documentation should include a link for common user's requirements, not only their examples.
October 20, 2020
Kendo UI gets the UX
We use Progress Kendo UI for web and mobile apps. We develop products that are licensed to thousands of clients. Some clients request custom add-on apps, this is where the widgets get the most use for us. Also all of our in-house projects take advantage of the widgets.
- Grids - The options are very useful. Drag and Drop. Integration with other controls such as comboboxes, buttons and images.
- Charts - We create many different dashboards for our clients. This is a strong point of Kendo UI.
- Spreadsheet - It is becoming more and more value added to our solutions for data import, export and review.
- Treeview - An excellent visual tool for data relationship display and manipulation. We usually use it with Drag and Drop to add / remove / move data points.
- The web site does not have versions in the forum or most of the documentation. So as features are improved, old method and events, etc. are deprecated, there is no simple to know which product version is being referenced. This is my biggest pain point.
- Database binding examples - more examples please
- PDF Export - better documentation and more examples. More feature control (unless it already exists and it isn't clearly documented).
- Initial project use - the documentation to add to an existing project or to a blank project can be confusing because of the lack of version specific documentation. I would like to have a single place to go to for documentation that I can select via drop down the Telerik product, the version (2017.2.504), the target development environment (VS 2015 SP3, VS 2017), etc. to have the specific instructions. That would cut down the learning curve and issues on version updates. We consider Kendo UI a valuable tool, however this simple issue can be painful and there is no reason for it.
October 20, 2020
Ultimate configurability vs standard controls.
We use Kendo UI in a variety of our products. We had been using ASP.net for our client side development and it was just too limited and slow to develop. We started to look for something that would be good for productivity and was going to progress. We have replaced a lot of our old ASP.net code with Kendo and have developed a lot of new products using only Kendo UI for the front end. I have found support spotty at times, but overall, I am quite pleased with the product.
- I really like the editor control. It just makes having WYSWYG input easy to implement.
- At first, the Kendo Grid was a bit light on features, but it has grown over the years and is quite full featured.
- The Window control is really quick to implement and is quite flexible as well.
- We also found the carts control nicely flexible. Our software is highly configurable and we put the kendo charts into a product that can show any kind of chart and the Kendo chart control was a perfect fit.
- Kendo keeps adding features and works with newer frameworks. They never stop being relevant.
- I have found support to be lacking at times. Sometimes my questions just haven't been answered.
- I do find the datasource a bit challenging to use. It works well if you don't try anything wierd, but after that I feel like I am on my own.
- I still find their documentation to be lacking. I've worked with worse, but I certainly have found much better.
October 14, 2020
Kendo UI helps to reduce development time
We develop an Online Facility Management System und use mainly Teleriks ASP.NET Controls but also Kendo UI for some of the more complex WebViews. We have one developer developing the Web Portal and some others developping Mobile Apps.
- Kendo UI has a good styling system. So it can be easily adapted to the style of the website
- Kendo UI has a perfect documentation and good support
- Kendo UI is easy to learn
- Kendo UI plays well with HTML5 single page scenarios
- Virtualisation for all controls not only for GridView
- Integration of Controls e.g. Combo Box with TreeList [order] GridView
February 12, 2020
Kendo UI is useful to build a interactive user interface
It being used by our department. It addresses customization and integration problems in the UI. It's very very user-friendly and easy to use. I like the look and feel of the controls as well. Kendo UI allows you to quickly and easily add advanced functionality to your app by integrating our configurable components. Customizable themes enable you to effortlessly deploy a consistent look and feel across your apps.
- Customizable themes enable you to effortlessly deploy a consistent look and feel across your apps.
- Full-featured grid.
- Large component library
- Multi-framework support
- Getting out of the box solutions on some problems can be a challenge. Sometimes finding a solution for very complex issues can be hard to find.
- More documentation and examples are needed which is very useful in development and learning.
- Some of the graphing capabilities need updating.
November 16, 2019
Smooth experience
It is being used by departments with different software products which is based on a variety of data gathering.
- Tree View ID is impressive.
- Different graphs and charts for different UI technologies are very good.
- Support could be better.
- Free licence for learning.
November 12, 2019
Kendo UI is amazing and I love using their components in my UI
It is being used to streamline the application building process. Using the Kendo UI tools makes creating applications much faster and more reliable than trying to depend on some random third-party tools that we find on GitHub or GitLab. We could not imagine using any other tools for building our applications.
- User guides.
- UI components.
- Easy set-up.
- Minor bugs in the new technologies (like .Net Core).
- Demo code sometimes is lacking.
July 11, 2019
Love the Kendo UI toolset from Telerik
We have a suite of applications that we have built on campus to help manage both internal business processes as well as manage some of the interfaces we have between various cloud platforms. We use the Telerik tools in our web user interfaces to improve our user experience because it has the features we need to meet our business requirements.
- Very nice, professional user experience.
- Native Javascript (standard based).
- Flexible and allows for customization.
- Steep learning curve.
- Getting out of the box too far on some solutions can be a challenge.
- Sometimes code examples for very complex issues can be hard to find.
We use it to allow GIS access to specific departments in the organization. It allows us to provide a light-weight GIS solution to users who wouldn't normally use GIS. The fact it is self-contained and easy to implement gives us the ability to quickly create and modify user interfaces without much effort.
- High quality code that is constantly updated with new features and bug fixes.
- Easy to implement.
- Excellent technical support.
- It took some time to renew our license because our emails went to our sales rep's spam folder.
- It took a bit too long for the KendoReact version to become available.
November 12, 2018
Kendo UI is a great product to save developer time.
Kendo UI is a great product to save developer time and deliver a business class product. The ease of use and short learning curve make the product easy to get started with.
- The product is very customizable.
- Progress has an excellent support team.
- The support forums have a lot of great information.
- They could have a few more test cases.
September 06, 2018
100% Javascript Experience and easy to Use
We are using Kendo UI to develop an internal solution and an external [option] for our customer solution. We are integrating Kendo UI for our business software solution in RHH, retail business etc. All our solutions are using the Progress UI Tool Set for web applications and smart device apps. Kendo UI has a platform of different flavors of JavaScript: jQuery, react, NativeScript, Angular and Xamarin too.
- With Kendo UI it's easy to build an Angular solution.
- Kendo UI is easy to install.
- With Kendo UI it's fast to build simple Android apps.
- Kendo UI is easy to integrate with Microsoft IDE and others.
- The Progress Tool Set easily integrates with Kendo UI.
- Kendo UI can improve the Chart Controls with a more modern style like 3D or 2D models.
- Kendo UI can improve integrating the Camera Controls Android an iOS, for example, to scan documents.
- Kendo UI can improve working collaboratively with a design prototype together with stakeholders.
September 06, 2018
Great set of tools to quick develop useful applications.
We currently use a variety of Telerik/Progress tools for our application development. This includes WPF and Kendo (jQuery/Angular).
I have found the WPF tools to be quite helpful and a massive time saver. The Angular tools seem to be very immature in comparison to the jQuery ones however what it there is very helpful.
I have found the WPF tools to be quite helpful and a massive time saver. The Angular tools seem to be very immature in comparison to the jQuery ones however what it there is very helpful.
- Their Angular JS integration makes using their tools on the web quite easy.
- Their comprehensive WPF tools and similar APIs for all components makes learning the tools quite easy.
- Their support for many platforms and environments means the tools can be used in almost every situation.
- It is sometimes difficult to find meaningful documentation for certain components. This means if you want to do something that they don't have a prebuilt example for then it make be difficult to figure out how.
- Unless you file a support request they are sometimes slow to respond in the forums. Some response is frankly better than no response.
- Sometimes the approved way of doing things is in contradiction to the approved way of the framework itself. For instance originally their WPF tools required non-standard ways to get them working correctly.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Kendo UI to deliver a rich web-based responsive custom software package for several clients. Have used Kendo with jQuery for a number of years and am pleased with the library, features, and compatibility the product offers. Telerik/Progress is constantly updating and expanding the product to address features and issues requested and found by the community. Training and support are excellent and the user community is very active and helpful.
- Kendo is often being updated with new features which makes it easy to stay on top of emerging technology.
- jQuery is fully supported in Kendo - it is easy to drop in Kendo widgets and access elements of the widgets through jQuery
- Great Training, Support, and User Community involvement. Lots of great resources to use when learning and implementing the product.
- In the past, we have had issues where updates to Kendo break existing code. This has become less common in the last few years with the power of Progress helping out Telerik.
- Have had some occasions with high memory usage with Kendo, but Telerik is addressing these issues.
- The product is not fully open-sourced. They have a base (core) version available on Github, but developers will need to purchase a full license for all features and enhanced support.
November 15, 2017
Kendo is awesome
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Kendo is currently being used in our Technology Services department by different development teams serving different agencies and public school districts. Kendo gives us a diversity of tools to allow us to achieve our business goals, one in particular we've had issues with developing reports based on current reporting tools and lack of resources. Thanks to Kendo, we can leverage our existing resources to utitlize Kendo to achieve our needs and goals.
- Control integration is simple.
- Diversity of tools.
- Small learning curve.
- Expand on reporting tools.
- Expand on mobile UI/UX experiences.
- No other suggestions.
October 31, 2017
Using Kendo UI Professional comes with a learning curve, but ultimately it's worth it.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We started using Kendo as part of a major re-design of operational and client applications. We were careful to choose the components that would provide the most benefits to our overall design and would speed up the development process
- The Kendo grid has advanced and extensible features such as paging and inline editing.
- We use panels to easily display hierarchical data that helped with our our SPA design.
- We implemented field validation using Kendo tool tips.
- Kendo UI includes a wide range of components that are thoughtfully designed and continually improved upon.
- More component usage examples would be appreciated.
September 22, 2017
Kendo UI for Independent Consultants
As a software consultant, I use Kendo in many of my consulting projects, which are primarily web and mobile-based.
On the web in particular, most teams I manage look to Kendo it as our sole source for UI components, although there are occasional exceptions.
On the web in particular, most teams I manage look to Kendo it as our sole source for UI components, although there are occasional exceptions.
- Exceptional user experience that fits in nicely with Bootstrap (and hopefully Material).
- One-stop shop for UI components.
- Constantly innovating (React, Angular versions, Bootstrap 4, open source elements, etc).
- Great support for AJAX/SPA scenarios.
- There is a learning curve. I've built up a library that surrounds my Kendo components and makes them a little easier to work with.
- Many common cases are easy, but sometimes you will find yourself lost in edge cases, where you spend hours figuring out how to solve something that doesn't seem like it should be so complicated.
September 12, 2017
Kendo UI - Great front-end suite of controls
We develop products for resale that include web-based UIs. Kendo UI is used in the UIs and dashboards to provide attractive, responsive, and performant controls.
- Charts - create interactive charts that can render as SVG or Canvas
- Templating is built in and can be used in most controls to affect the final output
- Drawing API along with the VISUAL property of most chart elements lets the user customize charts easily
- Rendered SVG chart elements should have assignable classes or ids, etc. so they can be easily selected and manipulated outside of the kendo UI code (e.g. with D3).
September 08, 2017
Why KendoUI?
At urbanit, we build tailor made web solutions for our customers. Kendo UI has helped us to create easy to use applications, both for web and mobile, with unique design and user friendly approach. As developer, I find KendoUI is easy to adopt, small learning curve and an almost complete feature set.
- Kendo UI Grid
- Kendo UI Angular
- Kendo DataViz
- KendoUI Mobile
- Kendo UI Editor
September 01, 2017
Kendo Review
We use it for prototyping and for small integration applications to allow viewing and editing of simple datasets.
- Fast development of simple applications
- Rich component set, easy to style and skin
- Self contained
- Easy to deploy
- Documentation needs improvement
- Examples are often too simple
- "Data" manipulation looks old style if compared for example with angular
Kendo UI was used to built different mobile apps. More or less all components used were based on KendoUI. As we are small software company all developers used same framework across all apps that we developed. The target was to be productive as soon as possible and we achieved that with KendoUI. Learning curve was fast and quality of components but also our products was on high level. Thanks to Progress team :)
- Easy integration
- Fast development with well designed components
- Easy to learn what is needed to be fast productive
- Frequent and good component updates
- There are a lot of components but additional ones will not hurt
- Additional sample apps will be also good to have
- Well there are not a lot of things missing so nothing else to add...